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Man who threw boy off Tate Modern balcony sentenced for attacking nurses at Broadmoor | UK News

Man who threw boy off Tate Modern balcony sentenced for attacking nurses at Broadmoor | UK News

A man who threw a boy off a balcony at the Tate Modern gallery has been jailed for 16 weeks for attacking two nurses. Jonty Bravery kicked one nurse at Broadmoor, a high-security psychiatric hospital in Berkshire, in the thigh and “clawed” at the face of the other, drawing blood, in September 2024. The 24-year-old was convicted in November but didn’t attend the trial and refused to appear via video link at Thursday’s sentencing. He was previously given a life sentence for throwing the six-year-old French boy from the 10th floor of London‘s Tate Modern in 2019. The boy survived the 100ft (30m) fall with devastating injuries that included multiple broken bones and a bleed on the brain. Bravery’s recent trial heard three staff at the psychiatric hospital monitor him “24 hours a day, seven days a week” and his room only contains a mattress. Image: The incident happened at Broadmoor, in Berkshire. File pic: iStock Prosecutors said the nurses, Kate Mastalerz and Linda McKinlay, were attacked in September 2024 after he tried to climb …